We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the great classic baseball card sets, 1988 Topps. We're going through all 792 cards one by one, posting bits about what makes the card awesome and cool stats about the player or team featured on the card. We're also posting the 1988 Topps Traded set!

Monday, February 11, 2008

#128 Johnny Grubb

Why this card is awesome: Because this is such a great-looking card, one of the very best of the 1988 Topps set. Orange Tigers logo, orange border, and an orange uniform. And that dark color on the bottom half of the card matches his helmet. Oh, and Grubb looks like he just ripped a double down the line

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Grubb was one of those guys who was an American League player all the way in the hands of the right manager. Sparky really helped him find his niche the same way Earl Weaver did with Lowenstein, Roenicke, et. al.